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Why This Moment Matters

Here's an excerpt from James Fallows at his Atlantic blog the other day— that I thought summed up nicely why, beyond all the caveats about how Health Care Reform, as presently constituted, falls far short of the mark, it matters:

...the significance of the vote is moving the United States FROM a system in which people can assume they will have health coverage IF they are old enough (Medicare), poor enough (Medicaid), fortunate enough (working for an employer that offers coverage, or able themselves to bear expenses), or in some other way specially positioned (veterans; elected officials)... TOWARD a system in which people can assume they will have health-care coverage. Period.